Our Activities
Activity Categories - Ten Ways to EXCEED
Attend, speak, or facilitate in forums, summits, and panels convened by EXCEED and its partners.
Publish thought leadership content on EXCEED platforms and build your voice as a subject-matter expert.
Serve as a consultant under EXCEED or its partners, in line with your expertise, or contribute to strategic initiatives around the world.
Coach or be coached, mentor or be mentored, through structured EXCEED leadership programmes.
Join small, practical, active peer networks of leaders sharing insight on strategy and execution.
Learn moreJoin a premier speakers bureau connecting businesses and events with exceptional speakers across sectors.
Learn moreDesign and propose your own development activity, aligned to your strengths and passions, for EXCEED approval.
Strengthen your entrepreneurial reach through the World Chamber of Entrepreneurs for Economic Development, connecting entrepreneurs across borders to access opportunities, partnerships, and knowledge beyond their local ecosystem.
Learn moreAlready growing outside EXCEED? Register development activities and initiatives from beyond our ecosystem – once verified, they earn PDCs too. Evidence of your participation, or written confirmation by the organizing body or institution, is required for verification.
Engage in health screenings, fitness activities, and wellness initiatives that safeguard your capacity to work and lead. PDCs Subject to determination.
The Seven Areas of Development - Balanced Development at EXCEED
Sixty PDCs a year keep you in good standing, but where those PDCs come from is what determines whether you're actually developing or just repeating what's easiest.
EXCEED's Ten Ways exist to serve seven distinct areas of growth. Balanced development means engaging across all seven, not mastering one at the expense of the rest.
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Knowledge & Thought Leadership
Building expertise and putting your thinking into the world.
Developed through: Publications, Consultancy -
Voice, Influence & Communication
The ability to speak, persuade, and hold attention, on a stage, in a negotiation, or in a room of one.
Developed through: Business Events (speaking & moderating), SEAT AFRICA Speakers -
Leadership & People Development
Growing others, and being grown by others in turn.
Developed through: Coaching & Mentorship -
Networks & Peer Learning
Learning through relationships, not just content.
Developed through: SANO7, Business Events (attending & organising), WenCHAM -
Strategic & Global Growth
Strategic and commercial acumen, and opportunity that reaches beyond your borders — whether you're building a venture, growing an institution, or leading within one.
Developed through: WenCHAM, Consultancy, Self-Driven Activities, Other Verified Activities -
Self-Directed Growth
Development you initiate yourself, on your own terms.
Developed through: Self-Driven Activities, Other Verified Activities -
Health & Wellbeing
The physical and mental capacity that sustains every other area of growth.
Developed through: Health activities & initiatives
EXCEED doesn't just track how many PDCs you've earned; it tracks where they've come from. If your development is concentrated in one or two areas while others sit untouched, your quarterly report will show it, alongside a recommendation for where to look next.
This is true whether or not you've met your PDC minimum. Hitting 60 PDCs a year through a single area is compliant. Hitting them across all seven is growth.
Curious which areas you're strongest in, and where you might be leaving development on the table? Log in to view your development balance on your EXCEED dashboard.
PDCs Schedule
| NO. | ACTIVITY | PDC VALUE (EXCEED ECOSYSTEM) |
PDC VALUE (NON-EXCEED ECOSYSTEM) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Business Events (attending & organising) | |||
| 1 | Attend as a delegate | 5 | 3 |
| 2 | Be a lead organiser | 5 | 3 |
| 3 | Be part of the organising team (not lead) | 5 | 3 |
| Business Events (speaking & moderating) | |||
| 4 | Deliver a speech | 5 | 3 |
| 5 | Moderate a discussion | 5 | 5 |
| Publications | |||
| 6 | Publish an article | 5 | 3 |
| 7 | Share an EXCEED experience | 5 | 5 |
| Consultancy | |||
| 8 | Deliver consultancy | 5 | 3 |
| Coaching and Mentorship | |||
| 9 | Receive Coaching or training | 5 | 3 |
| 10 | Deliver Coaching or Training | 5 | 3 |
| 11 | Receiving Mentorship | 5 | 3 |
| 12 | Teaching or lecturing | 5 | 3 |
| 13 | Mentoring someone | 5 | 3 |
| SANO7 | |||
| 14 | Participation in a SANO7 activity | 5 | — |
| 15 | Coordinating a SANO7 group | 5 | — |
| SEAT AFRICA Speakers | |||
| 16 | A speaking assignment | 5 | — |
| Self-driven activities (Self-Directed Growth) | |||
| 17 | Book reading, personal projects, writing, creative work, travelling, etc. | Subject to determination. | Subject to determination. |
| Self-driven activities (Strategic and Global Growth) | |||
| 18 | Consultancy, Events, Networking. | Subject to determination. | Subject to determination. |
| WenCHAM | |||
| 19 | WenCHAM annual membership | 5 | — |
| 20 | Attending a meeting | 5 | — |
| 21 | Coordinating an activity | 5 | — |
| 22 | Participating in an activity | 5 | — |
| Other Verified Activities (Self-Directed Growth) | |||
| 23 | Anything that entails personal development | Subject to determination. | Subject to determination. |
| Other Verified Activities (Strategic and Global Growth) | |||
| 24 | Anything that entails personal development | Subject to determination. | Subject to determination. |
| Health | |||
| Preventive & Medical | |||
| 25 | Health screening or medical check-up (annual or condition-specific, e.g., cardiovascular, diabetes, cancer screening) Evidence: medical report, clinic receipt, or screening certificate. | 5 | 5 |
| 26 | Vaccination or immunisation completed Evidence: vaccination certificate or card. | 5 | 5 |
| Fitness & Physical Activity | |||
| 27 | Completed structured fitness programme (e.g., a gym plan or personal training block, with a defined start and end) Evidence: completion certificate or confirmation letter from the gym/trainer/programme provider. | 5 | 5 |
| 28 | Participation in an organised sporting event (e.g., marathon, cycling event, tournament) Evidence: race number, official results listing, or event finisher certificate. | 5 | 5 |
| Mental & Emotional Wellbeing | |||
| 29 | Attended a wellness or stress-management workshop Evidence: attendance certificate or confirmation from the workshop provider. | 5 | 5 |
| 30 | Wellness coaching or counselling engagement. Evidence: written confirmation from a licensed or registered provider confirming engagement. | 5 | 5 |
| Advocacy & Contribution | |||
| 31 | Blood donation Evidence: donor card or donation certificate. | 5 | 5 |
| 32 | Participation in or support of a workplace/community health initiative. Evidence: confirmation letter from the initiative's organiser. | 5 | 5 |
| 33 | Leading or organising a wellness initiative for others. Evidence: organiser confirmation plus a brief summary of the activity delivered. | 5 | 5 |